Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
This is a procedural 2D texture map plug-in module to be used with Autodesk Maya (tested on 8.5). The implementation makes use of Ken Perlin's famous noise function - although a noise texture is already included in Maya, this plugin extends the present algorithm with a simple to use, but extremely powerful and popular noise function.
Perlin noise is a function that has a pseudo-random appearance with values changing smoothly from one point to another. It can be used to create a great variety of procedural textures to increase the appearance of realism in computer graphics.
Installation: ------------- Copy the .mll file into Maya's plugin directory (e.g. MAYA_PATH/bin/plug-ins) and, if you want a thumbnail inside Maya, the .xpm file to your Documents/maya8.5/prefs/icons directory. Then, inside maya, select and load the plugin from maya's plug-in manager (Window -> Settings/Preferences -> Plug-In Manager).
Please use the Bug System to report any bugs.
Please use the Feature Requests to give me ideas.
Please use the Support Forum if you have any questions or problems.
Please rate and review in the Review section.
